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. - ' . meonless again; for on every hand of us : are fair . women, : rich - wine ' and good . plunder, as much as heart csouio wisn. , '.:: "I have other Diana." answered Sir 'XI- rel curtly; i "for-1 hava com hither , to ead those, bowmen to- the help of ; the (- prince, our master, whft may have sore need at them ere he aet Pedro uoon the -; throne of Spain, It Is my purpose to start -:.-: . i this very day tor Da upon - me Aoaur, .;:' where he. hath now Ditched hi camo.' . -' The face ol the Gascon darkened, and -v!hU eyes flashed with resentment. . "For ; v,;niei tie said. ,i care-nine tor mm war, ;,"'. -5 .ond I And the- llfe-rwhich I lead a van . '' joyous nd pleasant onjsj. Jt will not so to. Pax." , ( , ' . - :s-ii -Na-y.-imnK again, uir Liauae, saia ear Klgel gently; ''for you have ever. had the s--om or a. true ana wyai Kiugnt. Bureiy you. will not hold back now when, your master hath need of you." i "I wH not go t Dax," the other sbout- ' ,"But your devoir your oath o fealty?" say that I will not go." -, ' , L, "Then, ir Claude, I must lead the .Jompany without you.'"' ,'VV they, will follow," cried the Gascon -jW lift i suevr, .iiuow ini iiui mrcu smvsn, ... ybut free companions, who will do nothing ! soothe niy- Lord Lorlng, they ara ill men ' to trifle with, and it were easier to pluck 'a bone from a hungry bear-than to lead ', a howman out of a land of plenty and j - ' ol pleasure." "Then I pray you to gather them to ,., gether." said Blr Nigel, "and I will tell " them what Is In my mind- for If I am their leader they must to Dux, and If I ' am not then I know not what I am doing , In Auvergne. Have my horse ready, Al- ieyne; for, by Bt. Pauir come wnat may, I must be upon the homeward rood ere mid-day." A blast upon the bugle summoned the bowmen to counsel, and they gathered in . lanen tree wnicn lay ainwari me giaae. . 8ir Nigel sprang lightly upon the trunk, and stood with blinking eye and Arm lips . ... tooaing down ai live ring 01 upmrneu war- tine tuoes. i "They tell me. bowmen." said he, "that 't ' ye--have grown so fond of ease and plun : der and high living that ye are not to be V - moved from this pleasant country. But, . ., by Saint -Paul! I will believe no such thing of you for I can readily see that you v are-all very valiant men, who would i acorn to live -here In peace when your Srince hath so great a venture before im. Te have chosen me aa a leader, and 4 : " a leader I will be If ye come with me to Spain; and I vow to you that my pennon of the five roses shall, if God give me ""-' strength and life, be ever where there is most honor to be gained. But if It be your - wish to loll and loiter In these glades. - bartering glory and renown for vile gold and Ill-gotten riches, then ye must And another leader, for I have lived in honor, and In honor I trust that I shall die. If - there 'be forest men or Hampshire men amongst ye, ' I call upon them to say - whether they will follow the banner of Lorlng." v "Heres a Romsey man for you!" cried a young bowman with a sprig of ever green set in his helmet. "And a lad from Alresford'." shouted another. "And from Milton!" "And from Burley!" "And from Lymlngton!" "And a little one from Brockenhurst-" shouted a huge-limbed fellow who sprawled beneath a tree. "By my hilt! lads." cried Aylward, jumping upon the fallen trunk. "I think tnat we could not iook tne gins in me eyes if we let the prince cross the moun tains and did not pull string to clear a 4 path for .him. It is very well In time of peace to lead such a life as we have had together, but now the war-banner Is In the wind once more, and, by these ten N finger-bones! If he go alone, old Samkin Aylward will walk beside it." These words from a man na popular as Aylward decided many of the wuverers. and a shout of approval burst from his audience. ' "Far be from It," said Sir Claude Latour suavely, "to persuade you against this worthy archer, or against Sir Nigel Lor lng; yet we have been together in many ventures, and perchance it may not be amiss if I say to you what I think upon the matter." "Peace for the Gascon!" cried the archers. "Let every man have his sword. Shoot straight for the mark, lad, and fair play for all." "Bethink you, then," said 8ir Claude, "that you go under a liard rule, with neither freedom nor pleusure and for What? For sixpence a day, at tne most; while now you may walk across the country and stretch out either hand to rather in whatever you have a mind for. What do we . not hear of our com rades Who have gone with Sir John Hawk wood to Italy? In one night, they , have held . to ransom six hundred of the richest noblemen of Muntuu. They camp before a great city, and the base burghers come forth with the keys, and then. they make great spoil; or. If It please them better, they take so many horse-loads of silver as a composi tion and so "they Journey on from state to state, rich and free and feared by all. Now, is not that the proper life of a soldier?" The proper life of a robber!" roared Hordle John, in his thundering voice. "And yet there Is much In what the Gascon says," said a swarthy fellow In n weather-stained doublet: "and I for one would rather prosper in Italy than starve Ip Spain." "You were always a cur and a trnltor. -HarltBhaw." cried Aylward. "By my hilt! If you will stand forth nni draw your word I will warrant you that you will see neither one nor the other." "Nay, Aylwnrd." said Sir Nigel, "we cannot mend the matter oy broiling. Sir Claude, I think that what you hftve said does you little honor, and If my words aggrieve you- I am ever ready to go deeper into the matter with you. But you shall have such men as will follow you. and you may go where you will, so that ynu come' not with us. Let nil who love their prince and country stand fast, while those who think more of a well-lined purse step forth upon the farther side." Thirteen bowmen, with hung heads and sneepisn laces, stepped i or ward 'with Mark Shaw and ranged themselves be hind Sir Claude. Amid the hootlngs and hissings of their comrades, they marched ' off together to the Gascon's hut. while . the main body broke up their meeting and set cheerily to work packing their possessions, furbishing their weapons, und preparing for the march which lay before them. Over the Tarn and the Garonne, through the vast quagmires or Armag- nac, past tne swiit-nowing ixwse, and so down the long valley of the Adour, there waa many a long league to be cronsed ere they couin join tnemnedves to tliat dBrk war-cloud which whs drifting slowly southwards to the line of the snowy peaks beyond which the banner of England had never yet been seen. , CHAPTER XXXIII. How the Army Made the l'Mwafto of HoiH-OHvalles. :i:Y '-The whole vast plain of Gascony and of Languedoc is an-arid and profitless ex panse In winter- save where the swift. flowing Adour and her snow-fed trlbuta ries, the Louts, -the Otoron and the Pau, .( run down to the sea of Biscay,. South of :: the; Adour the Inazed line of mountains . ' whioh fringe the sky. line. send out long granite claws, running down Into the low . lands and dividing them into "gaves" or A,..V. m .... 1 1 1 J I ll.nl- I n. . Vv. .hills. And hllllt Intr, mrtlintitlnM. nrh IftnaA -,:;, overlying Its neighbor, until they soar up in inn irlunr chain whlfh ,11 ana If '.:.' Jesa and untrodden - pe-tks, white and daxillng, against the pale blue wintry tr,.b.y. ' - - nu-r-iiiovuiK mi.-miuv, wun inn fiui uucriiK -.-. cap. his red aash and bis hempen san- dais, tills . his canty farm or drives, his : v the eountry of the wolf and the ia'rd,of - the brown bear and the mountain- goat, a ; junta or oare roca ana ot running water. Yet here It wa that the will of a great prlifce had now assembled a valiant armv: , so that from the. Adour to the passes of if Navarro ne oasren valleys , nnt wina : : . swept waste were populous with soldiers ": - and loud with- the shouting of orders and the neighing of -horses. For the banners ,.. of war had been fiung to the wind once more, and over-those glistening peaks t wsia- intn . jiihtiwhi h it in w rn 1 r r itnnr S p: pointed In an age when men had chosen - her ss their guide. -. And now all war ready , for1 the enter-' :; prise. - From -Da X' to St. r Jeun pled-du- l'ort' the eountry was - mott ird ' With the " white tents of Gascons, Aquitunluns and ' all aides the free companions had troop ed In, until not less than twelve thou sand of these veteran troops were ran - : toned along the . frontiers' of 'Navarre. i -Krorn England Thad. arrived the prince's l brother the Dukw .of Tiinmii, . : auitk . iouf - nunareq -anigniw in niat.' trnin and ;', an heir to tlm throne .had been born' InJ . ' vioraeauxj ana , xue- prince" m ht iemv welt with mother and wlttf Child. '! .The keys of- the mountain Dassea still lay in the hands of the , shifty and ignoble Charles of ; Navarre, who had chaffered and bargained 4oth' with Eng land and with the Spanish, taking money irom - tne one sua to noia tnem open and from the(other to keep them sealed. The mallet hand -of Edward . however. shattered all the- schemes and wiles of the plotter. Neither entneaty nor court ly remonstrance cams from, the English prince; -but Sir ' Hugh Calverley . passed silently . -over the -border-with' .nla com pany, and the- biasing walls of the. two cities of Mlrande ind Puenta delta Reyna warned,. . the unfaithful -monarch, . that there were other metals besides gold, and that he was dealing with, a man to whom it was. unsafe to- lie.-- His price was paid, his objection silenced; and the mountain gorges' lay open to the invad ers. From the . Feast of the- Epiphany there was mustering ana massing,- uniu in the first week ot February three days after the White - Company joined the urmythe. Word was given for general advance through the defile of Ronces- vaiies. At nve in the cold winters morn, ing the bugles were blowing In the ham. let of- St.1 Jean Pied-du-Port, and by six Sir Nigel's Company, - three hundred strong, , were on tlwilr. way for the de file, pushing swiftly In the dim light up the steep curving road; for It was the prince's order that they, should be the first to pass through, and .' that they should remain on guard at the further end until the whole army had emerged from the mountains. Day was already breaking in the east, and tne summit of the great peaks had turned rosy red, while the valleys still, lay in the shadow, when they found themselves with the cliffs on either hand and the long, rug- aed nass stretching awav before them. Sir Nigel rode his groat black war- horse, at tne neaa or nis arcners, dress ed in full armor, with Black Blmon bearing his banner behind t him. while Alleyne at his bridle-arm carried his blazoned; shield and his well-steeled ashen spear. A proud and happy man was the knight, and many a time he turned in his saddle to look at the long column of bowmen-. who swung swiftly along behind him. tty ttaint fapi! Aiieyno, saia ne. 'this nass Is a very perilous place, and I would that the King of Navurre had held It against us, for' It would have been a very honorable venture- bad it fallen to us to win a passage. I nave neard the minstrels sing of one Sir Roland who was slain by the infidels ln these very parts." - v": "If It please you, my fai lord." said Black Simon, "I know something of these parts, for I have twice served a term with the King or Navarre. There is a hospice of monks yonder, where you mav see the roof anions: the trees, and there It was that Sir Roland was slnin. The village upon the left In Orbalceta, and I know a house therein where the right wine of Jura neon is to be bought, if It would please you to quaff, a morn, ing cup." "There Js smoke yonder upon the right." "That Is a village named Les Aldudes. and I know a hostel there also where the wine Is of the best. It Is said that the inn-keener hath buried treasure, and I doubt not, my fair lord, that If you grant me leave I could prevail uoon him to tell us where he hath hid it." Nay, nay. Simon." said Sir Nigel curt ly. "I nray you to forget these free companion tricks. Ha! Edricnon, I see that you . stare about you. and In aood sooth these mountains must seem wondrous indeed to one 'who hath but seen Butser or the Portsdown hill." The broken and rugged roud had wound along the crests of low hills, with wood ed ridges on either side of It oyer which peeped the loftier mountains, the distant Peak of the South and the vast Alta bisca, which towered high above them and cast its black shadow from left to right across the valley. From where they now stood they could look forward down a long vista of beech woods and Jagged rock-strewn wilderness, all white with snow, to where the pass dpened out upon the uplands beyond. Behind them they could still catch a glimpse of the gray plains of Gascony, and could see her rivers gleaming like colls of sliver in the Kiiiishine. As far as eye could see from among the rocky gorges and the bristles of the pine woods there came the quick twinkle and 'glitter of steel, while the wind brought with it 'isudaen aistam bursts of martial musidlffrom the great host which rolled by every road and by path towards the narrow pass of Ronces valles. On the cliffs -on either side mtxht also be seen the flash of arms nnd the waving of pennons where the force ot Navarre looked down upon the army of Strangers who passed through tneir ter ritories. "B.v Saint Paul!" said Sir Nigel, blink Ing up. at them. "I think that we have much to hop!? for from these cavaliers, for they cluster very thickly upon our flanks. Phss word to the men. Aylward that they unsling their bows, for I have no doubt that there are some very worthy gentlemen yonder who may give ii some opportunity for honorable ad vancement." "I hear that the prince hath the King of Navarre as hostage." said Alleyne, "nd it is said that he hnth sworn to put him to death if there be any attack upon ns. "It was not so that war was made when good King Edward first turned his hand to it," said Sir Nigel sadly. "All! Alleyne. I fear that you will never live to sec such things, for the minds of men are more set upon money and gain than of old. By Snlnt Paul! it - was n noble sight when two great armies would draw together upon a certain day, and all who had a vow would ride forth to discharge themselves of it. What noble spear-running have I not seen, and even In ait humble wav had a part In. when cav aliers would run a'course for the easing of their souls nnd for the love of their Indies! Never a bad n-ord have I for the French, for. though . have ridden twenty times up to their array, I have never yet failed to find some very gentle and worthy knight or squire wno was willing to do what lie mlaht to enable me to at tempt some small feat of arms. Then, when all cavaliers had been satisfied, the two armies would come to hand-strokes, and fight right merrily until one or other had the vantage. By Saint Paul! U wits not our wont In those days to pay gold for the opening of passes, nor would we hold n king as hostage lest his people come to thrusts with us. In good sooth, If the war Is to be carried out In uch fashion, then it Is grief to me that I ever come away from Castle Twynham, for I would not have left my sweet ladv had I not thought that there were deeds of -arms to be done.'! "But surely, my rftlr lord," snld Al leyne. "you have done some great feats of arms since we left the Lady Lorlng." "I cannot call any to mind," answered Sir Nigel. "There was the taking of the sea-rovers, and the holding of the keep against the Jacks." "Nay, Nay," said the knight, "these were not feats of arms, but mere wayside ventures and the chances of travel. By Saint Paul! If It were not that these hills are over-steep for Pom mere, I would ride to tkse cavaliers of Navarre and see If thene were-not mime among them who would heln me to take this natch from mine eye. It is a sad sight to ace this vfv an tiAAa.' wtiun rnv nmn fvimnnnv here could held against an army, and yet to ride through It with as little profit as though it were tha lane from my ken nels to the" Avon." - , .. All morning Sir Nigel rode ' In a very ii, ,, n'l , - .,, . in. vu,mii. ii niiiffiiiBi behind him. It was a toilsome , march til k,...M .,(.). Kl , .... , ta-MtA over broken ground and ; through snow, which came often as high ns the knee, yet ere the' sun had begun to sink thev had reached the spot, where the gorge opens out on to tne upianas or JNavarr. and could see the towers of Pampeluna Jutting up against the southern sky-line. Here the Company i were quartered in a scattered mountain hamlet, and Alleyne spent the day looklnk down upon the swarming army which poured with gleam of -spears and flaunt of standards through the narrow pass. "Hola, mon gar," said Aylward, ' seat ing himself upon , a boulder by his side. 'This Is indeed a fine sight upon -which It is good to look, and a man might go far ere he would see so many brave men and fine horses. By my . hilt! our .little lord is . wroth because- we have fctme peacefully through the passes, but J will warrant him that we have fighting enow ere we turn our face north wurd aanln. It is said that there are' four-score thou sand men behind the King of Spain.-Vith Iu Guesclln aind all- the best lances of France, i who have -sworn to, shed - their heart's blood ere this Pedro come again to the throne," - '- 4 "Yet oUr own army, is. great one," said Alleyner", , - ,i' ' - "Nay. there are. Mir svn-nd( went? thousand - men.? Chandos hath persuaded the prtnoe to, loave many behind and in deed I think that he Is right,; for there Ik little food and less - watrr fa i-theiM parts for which we,, are bound. A man without hi meat or a horsw withotit his fodder is like a. wet-bow.strinf n. for llttle' But Volla, mon -petit, here eoraes Chandos and his company, and there is many a pens!) and banderole - among yonder squiidrons which show that tne best blood of England Is riding .under his banners.' 1 ,.-. Whilst Aylward bad been, speaking, a strong column. ' ot archers had i defiled through the pass- beneath them. -They were followed by a - banner-bearer who held high the scarlet wedge upon a sil ver field which proclaimed the presence of the famous warrior. He rode himself within 8v spear's-length of his standard, clad from nack to foot- in steel, - but draped in the long linen gown, or pare ment which was destined to be the cause of hla- death. His plumed hsimet was carried behind him by his - body-squire, and -his. head "was covered by a small purple cap. from under which bis snow white hair curledV . downwards to his shoulders. ' With, bis long beak-Uxe i nose and his ' single gleaming eye; which shone brightly from junder a thick tuft of grlxzled brow, he- seemed to Alleyne to have something of the look of . some fierce old bird of prey. For a, moment he smiled, as his eyes lit upon the banner of the five roses waving from the hamlet; out his course lay. for Pampeluna, and lie rode on after the archer. - Close at his heels, came sixteen squires, all chosen from the highest families,; and behind them rode twelve hundred Eng lish knights, with gleam of steel and tos sing of plumes, their harness - Jingling, their long straight swords m clanking attaints their stlrrup-lrons, and the beat of ; their chargers" i. hoofs like the . low deep roar of the sea upon the shore; Be hind them marched six hundred Cheshire and Lanoashlre archers bearing the badge of the Audleys, followed by the fa mous' Lord Audley himself, with the four valllant squires. Dutton ot Dutton, Delves of Doddinsrton. Fowlehurst of Crewe, and Hnnkston, of WalnchUl, wha naa an won sucn glory '"at Polctlers. Two hundred ' heavily arm ed cavalry rode . behind , the Aud ley standard. whllev close at their heels came Duke of Lancashire with a glittering train, heralds tabarded with the royal arms riding three deep , upon cream-colored chargers In front of him. On either side of the young prinee lode the two seneschals of Aqultaine, Sir Guiscard d'Angle and Sir Stephens Cos sington, the one bearing tne . banner of the province and the other that of Saint George. Away behind him as far aa eye couia reach rolled the tar-stretching, unb roken river of steel rank after rank and column after column, with waving . of plumes, glitter of arms, tossing of gut- aona. ana nasn ana nutter of countless armorial devices. All day Alleyne looked down upon the changing scene, - and all day the old bowman stood by his elbow, pointing out the crests of famous war. riors and the arms of noble houses. Here were the gold mullets, of the Pakingtons, the sable and ermine of the Mackwortbs, the scarlet bars of the Wakes, the gold and blue of the Grosvenors, the clnque- ions ot tne urn tons, tne annulets or tne Musgraves. the silver Dinlons of the Beauchamps, the crosses . of Molineaux, the bloody chevron of th .Woodhouses, the red and silver of the-.'JVorsleys. the swords of the Clarks. the boars -heads of the Lucles, the crescents of the Boyn tons, and the wolf and dagger o." the Llpscombs. So through the sunny winter day the., chivalry of England poured down through the dark pass of Roncesvalles to the plains of Spain. It was on Monday that the Duke of Lancaster's division passed safely through the Pyrenees. On the Tuesday there was a bitter frost, and the ground rung like iron beneath the feet of .the "horses; yet ere evening the prince him self, with the main battle of his army, had passed the gorge and united with his vanguard, the hostage King of Na varre, and the fierce Don Pedro of Spain, whose pale blue eyes gleamed with a sinister light as they rested once more upon the distant peaks of the land which had disowned him. Under the roy al banners rode many a bold Gascon baron and many a hot-blooded islander. Here were the high stewards of Aqul taine, of Salntonge, of La -Rochelle. of Quercy, of Limousin, of Agenois, of Pol. tou. and of Bigorre. with the banners and musters of their provinces. Here al so were the valiant Earl of Angus, Sir Thomas Banaster with his garter - over hie greave, Sir Nele Lorlng. second cous in to Sir Nigel, and a long column of weisn lootmen wno marched under the red banner of Merlin. From 'dawn to sundown the long train wound through the pass, their breath reeking up upon ine irosiy air line me steam irom cauldron. The weather .was less, keen upon the Wednesday, and the rear guard made good their passage, with the bombards Ind the wagon-train. Free companions and Gascons made up. this portion of tne army to tne number of ten thousand meq. The fierce Sir Hugh Calverley, with his yellow mane, and the 'rugged 8lr Robert Knolles, with their war-haraened and veteran companies of English bow men, headed the long column; while be hind them came the turbulent bands Of the Bastard of Breteull, Nandon de Ba- gerant, one-eyed Camus, Black Ortlngo, La Nuit, and others whose very names seem to smack of hard hands and ruth less deeds. With them also were the pick of the Gascon chivalry the old Due l Armagnac, his nephew Lord d Albret, nrooaing ana scowling over nis wrongs, the glnnt Oliver de Clisson, the Captal no uuen, pina 01 Knigntnooo ana spright ly Sir Perducas d'Albertu the red-beard ed Lord d'Espurre. and a long train of needy and grasping border, nobles, with long pedigrees and short nurses, who had come down rrom their hlll-stde strpng. holds, all hungering for the spoils and ransoms of Spain. By the Thursday morning the whole army was encamped in the Vale of Pampeluna. and the prince had called his council to meet - him In the old palace of the ancient city of Na varre. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Work for Its Own Sake. New York Commercial . Get work! Get work! Be sure 'tis better work than what you work to get.' While this advice might have been that of any wise man to youth In our own day, the words are Carlyle's to the - youth of all time In his "Sartor Resartus'' The young man who loses his appreciation of the ract that the work which-' develops his mind, his will, his nower of annreclation and persistence of purpose, is in itself wormy or his love, and will some day come to be, according to loyalty or dis loyalty to it. either his haDDiest memorv or his most dreaded reoolecUon, does not snow real values. The time comes to eve. ry man to whom business has been a ca reer and not mere bread-and-butter affair, when the enjoyments Incident to his work and not the scattered plums which he has iiinimai-u iu secure irom me proceeds ot inn worn, are me rem jewels or nis col lection. r t; The fun of the fight the mere, playing the game Is satisfaction such air one can make sure of as he works, and to fail to secure it because' of the commonvmiscon- ception that happiness dwells apart from me pains 01 me wonter ana must he reached only ut the end of a long climb. Is In the nature of tragedy. 1 It was well back in the last- eentury says The Bulletin of the American Insti tute of Bank Clerks, when the socialism of to-day took on o somewhat different Phase, and the doctrine of state and com. munlty-ownershlp of lands was openly preached, that a wealthy, plain-living and blunt-spoken farmer of western New them be distributed again -among all the members of the - community. All your work In accumulating acres Is wasted. What do you think of the redistribution scheme, Uncle John?" The' old man was prompt with -bis reply: "By glory, 1 lust wish they would do it; I'd like 410 better fun m this world than to get the land all away from the fools again?' No one could accuse the old man of hot playing, the game to the limit from pure- love of the game. , The Reason VaTiy. : J, l t Chicago Record Herald. ' ' , , . , ' He was a big man. with bushy whiskers. The areat ship bad jua passed out be. tween the capes and was swiftly plunging mrougn me waves inai were 100 jugn to climb over. All but -a few of the nasseiL. gers had gone Inside,- He swallowed sev era! times witn ' ponsiaeraDie emppasls and then hurried to the rait. 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Some hair dressers use Herpicide' for obstinate cases only, but why not use the best first? Herpicide Is a delightful dressing that can be used when there Is no disease of the hair or scalp, and aa an actual remedy for dandruff, itching scalp and falling hair it stands in a class singularly . Its OWSi y. Many ladies object to a gumm.y-.and sticky hair dressing, or one that is full of sedimentary chemicals intended to dye the hair. The marked preference for a clean and dainty preparation,' particularly one that overcomes excessive olllness and leaves the hair light and fluffy. Is reflected In the enormous .sale of Newbro's Herpicide. Discriminating ladies become enthusiastic over its refreshing quality and exquisite fragrance. It stops itching of the scalp almost Instantly. ' i- - , . ; At Drug Stores Send 10 cents in stamps to Tins- Herpicide Co., Dept, X, Detroit, Midi., for sample. R. H. JORDAN & CO., Special Agents THE BADEN-POWELL BUST A QUEER BLUNDMl IX HISTORY Capt. John Smith ClnimtHl as an An cestorHe Wved and DiMl a Bachelor A Romance of the Iress The Faithful .Old Clock "Ued Buck" and the nead Waiter of tlic Hotel La Fayette. Written for The Observer. A year or more ago an enterprising newspaper correspondent found in a town of one of the middle States a woman, wife of a prosperous machi nist. Who proved, the coiresnoinlcnt went on to graphically narrate, to be the granddaughter of a distinguished Confederato officer. A pretty story u- a a I M t. ....... , . , . , , v III ,ut1 lur II1H lUHCIUllllO at her home In the South, the opposi- tton of her -aristocratic parents and re - latlves, her fidelity to the man of her1 choice, their marriage, and their inak - lng a home for themselves at the North. The only tumble with the story was that it was not true. th(, ills- tlnguished Confederate oiTicer in ques tion having lived and died a, bachelor . and consequently never having hud a granddaughter. General Baden-Powell, the Hritish officer who achieved such distinction in the Boer war, writes to the man agers Of the Jamestown Exposition that he desires to present to the Ex position a bust of She celebrated Capt. John Smith, the founder, defender and oft times eavlqr of the settlement of Jamestown; "who," writes General Baden-Powell In conclusion, "was my illustrious ancestor." This last clause, as the credited Virginia historian, James Gordon McCabe points out in a recent Issue of The Richmond Times Dispatch, Is an astounding "rider" to General Baden-Powell's offer for it Is a well known fact that John Smith wp never married. He was in the new world altogether not quite three; years, arriving with Bart holemew j Gasnod and the council in the early ! pan 'or iwt, ana returning to England in the latter part of 1609. It is certain that John Smith did not marry in Virginia; had he done so. it would surely have' been noted in ' tne voluminous writings of his con- temporaries and personal friends. Ar- cher and William Stfachey. There is no record anywhere of his having married after his return to England. nor does he. In any of his writings mention wife or child. Indeeed. ln his will he specifically devises to another heir of his father property bequeath ed to him conditionally on his surviv ing his brother" Francis. It Ik almost Incredible that General Baden-Powell should have made such a blunder In his geneology though, as McCabe facetiously observes, he may well be, like many others who do not know It, a distant relative of some John Smith, considering , the tens of thousands that have been born Into the world. It is somewhat the way of fate that one of the real heroes of history, one ot tne truly great men of any age or clime, should stand on the pages of the chronicles as plain, prosaic, mono- syiannc "jonn smith" He wan born at Wllloughby, England. In 1579. and on the death of his father was appren ticed to a nnen-araper at X,ynn. He early conceived a distaste for mercan tile occupations, and when onlv ir. I years old built a hut In the depths of: tne woods, wnere ne lived as a hermit, i ana aevotea nimsei: to tne study or military service. 1 In 1596, at the age of 17 years, he set out roaming over the world to seek his' fortune, and a year later enlisted In the Austrian service,. Join Ing the ar my of Transylvania against the Turks. At 4he siego of Regal, when a lad less lhan twenty years old. he slew and cut off the head of Tarbtshaba, the Otto man champion, who had defied any christian worrlor to single combat. John Hmlth was afterwards taken prisoner, and was sold aa a slave to an odalisque in the harem of a pasha at Constantinople. His mistress con- celved a passion for him, and. to en sure-his safety sent him to her broth er, a pasha on the shores of the sea of Axoo. This man proved a bloody tyrant, and Smith, unable to endure the crueltles to which he was sub jected, killed the pasha and made his escape. He wandered through Russia, Germany, France. Spain and Morocco. and Anally landed In England after an absence of ten years. . - John Smith was the very life, genius, of. the Jamestown settlement. He saved the, colonists over and over from destructlon-rsaved . them from the Indians, whom the repeatedly provoked to hostilities by their Impru dence; saved them from starvation, with which they were continually threatened by their idleness and im providence; saved them from themsel ves, for they., were always . rent Into feuds, arid divided, into ' factions. ;: :. Five years after - his, return " from America; ? te ; the "mother- country in 1614, John ' Smith made an unsuccess ful expedition to -North Virginia,, now New England: but thenceforth to hie death 17 year, he lived In his native land, spending- much of his - time In travelling through j England, and en deavoring to enlist-men of means In hi plans for the, colonisation of the fiew World, He also vainly solicited the influence and aid of the Queen eon Use : and" Recommend "I am sending you my photograph to show what New bro's Herpicide haa done for me. Since I first tried Herpicide upon my hair, I have used it exclusively in giving scalp treatments to others, and I would not think of trying to get along without it." (Signed) MRS. ANNA CONNER. 2S07 Archer Ave., Chicago, III. sorts of James 1 and Charles I In a tribute to the memory of Pocahontas, who, as Miu. Rolfe, died In England. He died in London in 1631, during the reign of Charles I, aged about 52 years John Smith had all the qualities of greatness, with few or none of the weaknesses and foibles which reduce men to the small and commonplace. Though we have no reason to believe that he was of herculean Sitature. he was a giant In physical strength, an expert swordsman, terrible with the battle-axe, and a superb horseman; patient of toll and privation, and un used to hardchtps. Personally he was brave, ever to hardihood; as a com mander, he was vigilant, prudent and i far seeing. He was a great explorer. I a born leader of men, a wlso ruler. and a thoughtful, comprehensive ad- ' iliriiut-l-.... . f offulru I ""ni" j Tn0 Jamestown Exposition could i have nothing which will bo beloved wi,h more interest by the tens of thou- isanas who wi" ttoek to the. ter-cen- ,ur' celebration of the nrt perma- ! ,u'nt pttlement in Virginia than a ; "uRt or John Smith-though he w the ancestor of nobody. In my viev there Is nothing stranger In all the newspaper history of a quar ter of a centuiy than that a lovely, charming girl, sheltered within the walls of a female college in a small town of North Carolina modest and retiring who shuns publicity as the mimosa closes Its petals to the even ing ahades should, with .the lightn ing flash of the wires, achieve notrlety all over Europe and America, because in 1903 she visited Paris, and. in com pliance with the law, presented her self at the prefecture of police to give her nationality, her name and the names of her parents. The finale of the Ethel A. Brown mystery of the Seine was reached when the father and mother arrived from London, and Identified the body as that of their daughter, an English woman. Th crux of the mystery was flushed under sea and over head, by cable and wire, all over the world when the Paris police read at the per- fecture the entry of the American girl who, at that very hour, maybe, was strolling across the beautiful compus. j fronting a stately pile of buildings, ; with a background of dense, dark 'forest, thousands of miles away, I ln tne gtore of Mr w. H. Powell on . pertfnn street. Fnyettevllle. stands a i clook ticking the seconds, marking ;(he minutes, and recording the hours with unvarying fidelity though it has seen many years of service, and has a history. Fifty years ago Its place was on the substantial, handsome mantleplece In the office of the State bank on Gilles pie street, where are now the large sales stables of Bevill St Vanstrong. There It rocked Its pendulum Inexor ably to and fro, .day by day; heedless of the huughty, prospemus merchant, who strode In with creaking boots, heavy gold watch-chain. and fine broadcloth, to make a big deposit; unpitylng. of the mortgaged wretch, who hastened In, with haggard face and trembling hands, to make a re newal on the note which was eating up his substance. What were wealth and poverty to It the husbandman of the heavy crops of time? and It swung Its pendulum on. !hen wars rude alarms crashed In on tne sounu or its oents. and names A Test Will Tell What Liquozone Can Do For You and. it is Free. Tou who ere waiting we ask you again to try Liquozone; to try It at our expense. You'll regret this delay when you learn what the product means to you. Do as million have done stop doubting; give Liquozone attest. Then Judge It by results. Germ diseases and there are scores of them call for a germicide. Those are the diseases to which Liquozone best applies. Don't cling blindly to old-time remedies. If you don't find them effective. Let us prove the power of the new. WHAT LIQUOZONE IS. The virtues of Uquosone are derived solely fro gases, by a process re quiring large apparatus, and from 8 to 14 days' time. No alcohol, no nar cotics ar In It. Chemists of the high est class direct the making;. The re sult Is to obtain from these harmless gases a powerful tonlc-germlclde. The gft value of Llqudsone lies In the fact that it- Is deadly to germs, yet harmless to you. Germs are of vege table origins and this gas.-made pro duct," when absorbed toy them, stops thrlr activities. W publlshvan offer of $1,000 for a germ disease-that It ean not ; kllL But to thehody; Uquosone la exhilarating; vltalislnaY purlfylnf It la helpful In the, extreme. That Is Its main d!sUnctiouT Com mon germicides . are poisons . when taken Internally, That la why , medK nroves , ao ; nearly ' helpless 1n .. a verm! disease, Uquosone la a -toaio, , i surged about It, while men grappled in deadly conflict on the streets; and the walls crumbled above It, and. fell; and It seemed as If "Its occupation was gone" for was not this the end of all things? But It had not finished its work, and it was saved from the devastation of even that day, forty-one years ago, when Sherman's army entered Fay ettevllle. It was afterwards sold at auction, and was bought for $50 by the late Jesse W. Powers, long a merchant on upper Hay street. In his last days. when about to loose his hold on the things of this life, Mr. Powers gave the clock to Mr. W. A. Powell, who was with him much In his Illness, as a token of friendship and esteem. The clock has yet a bright, cheery face, and there is an old-time music in its steady stroke. It is still a faith ful servant of hoary, insatiate, scythe bearing time, who cuts, and cuts, and cuts his crops: "Men may come, and men may goj nut 1 go on forever. - Mr. H. E. C. Bryant, city editor of The Churlotte Observer, who recently spent a day or two In Fayettevllle, cordially greeled by his and the pa per's many friends, has a devoted ad mirer In Jim Reaves, the head-waiter at the Hotel LaFayette, though at the same time he is the terror of that In dividual's life. Jim Reaves is a sort of lopped-off, fore-shortened Hercules. He Is not much over 6 feet high, but has the trunk of Goliath and the neck of the bull of Bashan. H is a steady, uncompromising black from head to heel, while In Intensified by a suit of glossy black broadcloth, and has the manners of my Lord Chesterfield. On the last day of his recent visit. Just after Mr. Bryant had taken his seat at the table In the hotel dining room, and Jim Reeves was strapping a towel around his neck to keep him from slobbering the soup over his shirt bosom. Mr. Bryant said: "Jim, I had a strange dream about you the night befoi-e 1 left Charlotte. I thought that a copper-colored man came into my room and said, in a deep, hollow voice, "kill that head-waiter, Jim Reeves, when you get to Fayettevllle." But, stranger than that, the evening I got here I was sitting at a friend's fire side, when over the mantelpiece a handwriting came out on the wall, with these words: 'dont forget about killing that nigger before you leave.' " Jim Reeves went over to another part of the dining-room, and seemed to coagitate, furtively eyeing "Red Buck" from time to time. Later on In the meal, as Mr. Bryant was stick ing his fork into his fourth half of roast chicken, he beckoned to Reeves, and the latter went ov?r to his table. "Jim, "he said, "you needn't be uneasy over this matter. I have no Intention of killing you. because I like you; and. besides. If I were to kill you. I would have to go through the trouble ,f being tried for my life. So there Is no danger of my killing you un less 1 go crazy: and my friends say that there Is no telling at what minute I may go crazy. If you see me mak ing at you with a queer look out of my eys, you'd better get out of the way until I sorter come to myself," Late that afternoon I met Jim Reeves In the corridor of the Hotel LaFayette and asked: "Jim, has Mr. Bryant, of Charlotte, left the city yet?" "I think h have started, suh," was the reply: "but I'se watchln'; the porter has carried down his baggage. WK PAID 1100.000 For the American rights to Llquo sone, after hundreds of test had been made with It After Us power had been demonstrated, again and again, in the most difficult germ diseases. Then we spent, in two years, more than ten times that sum to let others test ItNi our expense. The result Is that millions of people, scattered everywhere, have shared in the bene fits of this Invention. We make the same offer to you. We asy you to prove, at our cost, how much this product means to you. Xef Llquosone itself show how wrong It la to surfer from a trouble that It cures. GERM DISEASES., Most of our sickness has. In late years, been traced to berm attacks. The list of known germ diseases now number about 100. . . - T. . -"v. Some germe as In skip, troubles direct ly attack the tissues. Some create tiln causing such troubles as Rheumatism, Blood . Poison, Kidney Disease and nerve weakness. Borne de stroy vital organs, as In Consumption. Some like the germs , of Catarrh create Inflammation; some causa lndl gestlon. Directly er Indirectly, nearly every serloua ailment Ut a germ result. Ouch diseases call for Llquosone not drugs, which can't kill germe.-V Every germ attack, no matter what Its symptoms, calls for a germicide. The mildness of Uquosone make some of Its results, seem almost Incredible. ) But in - that anlldnsM lies the , power i M I 'S'TwSiJjA:'?'-;- M ( - I ,v;f(;--V.!.-;v.,':,.;ts:, Mrs. Anna Conner. 7 : ... iH -..tt.'', for I recognised the gray telescope) grip, with that piece of rope tied round -It, and I also recognised hie blue cot- ton umbrella, what he bought the day; of the big rain, when we had the cen- . tennial here'ln 1889. I sholy likes Mr. ., Bryant, but I do trust and pray dat he -have gone Jis time. I watched Mr., . Bryant at dinner, and when he waal eatin' his last piece of mince pie derst V was a 'spresslon in his eye I didn't -.' ' like not at all. suh. It seem to me X I took a hack to ride to my home- , over Haymount, and, as I passed the) nassenaer station ot me Atlantis Coast Line R. R. there were many - a, travelers waiting to take the South- y 1 bound train for Maxton. One or two) ( , -s men were doubled over laughing, and. "tt standing In front of them, leaning; against a post, was "Red Buck," tell ' Ing one of his Inimitable stories. He)', was going away without killing Jlra f'." Reeves, after all J. H. M-'v- Kilucated Men In Demand. 1 - New York Commercial. ' ln an article In Moody's Magazine , Frank H. Fayant shows that educated ). m,n ant mnr and mirt In Aumflnil in llM L business world. Mr. Fayant refers parties 0 ularly to graduates of technical schools, j . but his conclusions are eouallv aDDlioable to graduates of schools of financme end to the American Institute of Bank Clerks. The writer says that while there has been made In this country elaborate provision for the training of vaunm men for the . technological side of business only recent ly have steps been taken to provide simi lar training for young men taking up the commercial side. We have been turning out scientifically trained embryo captains of industry, nut we nave given little at tention in our universities to educating , ine men wno are ur vxpiuit ui pruaucis 4 of the Industries. The trouble has been ' inai wnue mt? umuutaciun-r may oe con vlnced that his boy ought to have a y course in the theory of enaineertna if he ,', Is going to be a works manager, it le . difficult to show him how his boy is going ' In It helnerl In his huslnesil nAMWvff iv ''i studying economics aa a preparation for' ,i administrative work The business man turns up his nose at r( political economy, and there Is some rea son for this attitude. Jt Is notorious that C the economist Is apt to be a vain dreamer.'. But. within the past few years, there have been established, largely through the .' efforts of the American Bangers' Assocltt-.". ' tion. systematic university courses la ; "J commerce and finance, notably. st Wlscoiw ' J - sin, Dartmouth. New York. Illinois, Pen sylvanla. Michigan. Northwestern, Chlca.v go and the Philadelphia Central, Higtuii.. School. The new degree, "Bachelor oCji-t." Commerce," has been created. A Abroad, the new University of Blrmlng- ham. laid out on American lines, nas ore- ' " ated a faculty of commerce and haa an- Don ten me nrsi cntrnsti professor or accounting while In Germany there haa been founded the Lelpsig Handelschocb. . schule. These schools ot commerce, the 5' last step In the new education, aim to . give the young man preparing for com- meroe an understanding of the principle v ' underlying all business operations, to ac quaint him with some of the problems that he must solve, and to furnish him $ with Information which will aid him' in . . -the solution of such problems. They offor . Ll.UI.. I 1 1 1 n ...., i n 1 , Itiguty bcviiiuvu iiibuuviiuii in o,:i.vuiiv- v law; they place the technique of com,; " merce on a Dar wnn me old classical .; education. DO NOT BR IMPOSED UPON. Foley & Co.. Chicago, originated Honey and Tar as a throat and lung remedy. , and on account or the great merit and -. ' popularity of Foley's Honey and Tar , ' many - Imitations are offered for, "the ,t genuine. These worthless Imitations k have slmllnr sounding names. Beware of Micm. The genuine Foley's Honey and "S. Tar Is In a yellow package. Ask for it .. . and refuse any substitute. It. is the bent remedy for coughs ana colds. H. a. - Joidan & Co. , . ' that germ diseases need. And disease which have resisted medicine for years often yield at ot)ce lo fit, -1- s 80c BOTTLE FREE. V "- J If you neeijl Llquosone, and have: . never tried It, please send u this on ; pon. We will then mall you an order " on a local druggist for a full-slae bot tie.'and will pay the druggist ourselves . tot it. This la our free gift, made to , convince you: to let the product itself -' show you what it-can do. In Justice f yourself, please accept It to-day, for it places you under no obligations . whatever. J ! Uquosone coats 50c and IL00. CUT OUT TUISv COUPON ; . Pill it out and mail-to The Uquo sone Company, 4684f - wabasa Ave Chicago. Vy disease t V.- W : i I have never, tried Uquosene, hut If you will supply (Bie a too hottia -free X wU! take U.- . , . . , . sat- s( a - -w w ei ,e i CT?- ''" "s'f ' " r-.'..(-' . .. l n K5 .Give full address write r' Jfote that this offrv an ! esrs only. Any physictsn o. 7t using- T.iqiioior.e wi.l bu jvliei (or a tsu 5 . aw aoouM wiia aa easy mina, lor all wag I i. it i" r 'I iv ' ' f t ' 1 1
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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March 25, 1906, edition 1
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